I always used to use Nemo and Caja, but they are slow (1 connection at a time only), and often don't let you retry if the network times out or another error occurs... so you have to manually hunt out the files that weren't copied/moved etc. So now I use FileZilla as recommended by Terry :D
Hamish On 02/02/2020 10:48, aidangcole--- via dorset wrote: > > That's all fine and dandy, but if it's a graphic tool you want, why > not just use the file manager that you already have (ie Dolphin, > Nautilus, Caja etc etc) > No need for Filezilla or anything like that......... > > > > On 02/02/2020 09:53, Terry Coles wrote: >> On Sunday, 2 February 2020 09:22:27 GMT PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: >>> I have seen two articles recently about connecting to a Raspberry >>> Pi. Is it >>> horses for courses, or is one to be preferred over the other? >> We do a lot of remote connecting to Raspberry Pis :-) Until now, I have >> personally used SSH from a console to do work on the remote device; >> mainly >> tailing logfiles and editing with nano, etc. I then use Filezilla to >> up and >> download files to and from the remote device. I do a lot of the latter, >> because at least once per week I connect to all the Pis in the >> network and >> download results files which show the levels of water in the various >> areas of >> the River System. (Yes, I know I could use scp, but I have mega >> problems >> remembering the pathnames ;-( ) >> >>> Snowflake ssh: >>> https://www.techrepublic.com/article/snowflake-is-the-linux-ssh-gui-you-did >>> >>> nt-know-you-needed/ >> I too saw this a couple of days ago and I downloaded it here to my >> desktop. >> In essence it would appear to allow me to up and download files to >> and from the >> remote device, edit files on the remote device and also get a shell >> console on >> the remote device; all without logging in to each device two or three >> times. >> >> The main downside (arguably) is that it breaks the golden rule of 'do >> one >> thing and do it well', but if it works and it isn't too buggy, I'd be >> happy to >> use it. I plan to try it out on Monday or Tuesday when I routinely >> retrieve >> the Results. >> >> > >
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